oatmeal , 6 days ago to palestine group

#US / American Immigration Authorities to Israelis: Have You Committed War Crimes?

Requests by Israelis for a "Green Card" are being delayed due to an in-depth investigation into their military service: "The interviewer was very curious about my weapon skills and wanted to know details about my reserve duty in Gaza", "I travel to the US so often, I've never experienced such bullying", "It feels like they copied questions from the office of the Chief Prosecutor in The Hague"​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

These probing and questions seem to be aimed at investigating whether the person being questioned may have been involved in any war crimes or unethical uses of force during their military service. The tone and framing suggests the immigration authorities have serious concerns they are trying to scrutinize very carefully.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

For example:

Have you ever actually used weapons or explosives? If so: What kinds of weapons or explosives did you use? How did you use the weapons or explosives? In how many cases did you use weapons or explosives? How frequently did you use weapons or explosives?; Did you ever discharge a weapon and/or explosive against another person? If so, please detail the circumstances for doing so, and explain why you discharged a weapon and/or explosive against another person/other people.

Note: take with a grain of salt, given the source's tendency toward sensationalism and accusations of discrimination/antisemitism, even when the scrutiny may be reasonably warranted given the serious nature of potential war crimes, or a routine. The article is not based on any meaningful research work, and seems to be a collection of anecdotal first hand reports (with the obligatory “product placement” of a specific legal service provider.)

[Hebrew] https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/rjvq82gur

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #Gaza #ICJ

faab64 , 7 days ago to random

@oatmeal
I doubt it. Giving Hezbollah exact coordinates of strategic military and industrial targets is not any military would allow.

They are saying it because Hezbollah claims that both the Iron Dome and arrow systems were hacked and couldn't detect these drones (judging by the video, it looks a lot like a mix of multiple videos).

Anyway, I'm glad Israel is finally have to deal with a strong opposition that can retaliate and hurt them like they have never hurt before.

Sadly that is the only language the lunatics in Tel Aviv understand.

rms , 26 days ago to random

[2/2] … doubt that what Haley advocates would be genocide. Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.

oatmeal , 30 days ago to palestine group

#Israel boycott / FIFA to seek legal advice on Palestinian proposal to suspend Israel from international soccer

The Palestinian request for suspending #Israel was not rejected outright, but rather postponed pending a legal assessment process and a subsequent #FIFA Council meeting within the next two months.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Instead of putting it to a vote at the FIFA Congress in Bangkok, FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced that the matter will be reviewed by independent legal experts first. Their assessment and recommendations will then be forwarded to the FIFA Council, which will convene an extraordinary meeting before July 20, 2024, to make a decision based on the legal review.

Unlike an academic boycott, a suspension from international soccer would have a broader and more visible impact on Israel, as soccer has a wider appeal and following, possibly making a suspension from FIFA a more impactful measure.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Netanyahu’s supporters will find difficult to live with.

https://apnews.com/article/palestinians-israel-fifa-soccer-ca33eb89d7b310e8af5de11d6a09852d

@israel
@palestine
#Israel #IsraelWarCrimes

MikeDunnAuthor , 1 month ago to random

Today in Labor History, May 16: Romani Resistance Day, commemorating the Roma people who fought the fascists during World War II. The date was chosen due to a Holocaust survivor stating that on 16 May 1944, there was a rebellion of Roma detainees at the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. However subsequent research by the Auschwitz Museum discovered that this date was most likely incorrect. It was actually in early April that a number of Roma prisoners refused orders from the SS to leave to work in Germany. Instead, a Polish prisoner was ordered to make a list of Roma able to work to be transported later. By 2 August 1944, those Roma able to work had been transported elsewhere, when the SS came to take the others to the gas chambers. The prisoners armed themselves with crowbars and fought back, but were eventually overcome and gassed. And just a few days ago, The European Committee for Social Rights (ECSR) unanimously concluded that Italy’s new fascism government was violating the European Social Charter as regards the housing rights of the Roma, 15,000 of whom are currently living in shanty towns on the margins of big cities such as Rome, Milan and Naples.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/european-watchdog-rebukes-italy-over-treatment-roma-minority-2024-05-13/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #genocide #holocaust #roma #romani #aushwitz #resistance #fascism #rebellion #italy #WorldWarTwo #concentrationcamp

mondoweiss , 1 month ago to israel group

Joe Biden continues to fully support the Gaza genocide because he does not believe it will hurt him politically, and because he has no empathy for the Palestinians. This is the same arrogance that brought down LBJ over the Vietnam war.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/genocide-joe-is-beginning-to-stink-like-lyndon-b-johnson/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

faab64 , 1 month ago to israel group

The spokesman of the Israeli army announced that 12 soldiers were injured due to bee stings.

Hamas bees!

#Gaza #Israel #Karma #Genocide
@palestine @israel

adachika192 , 1 month ago to palestine group

@palestine

Netanyah & co. won’t agree to any proposal with “Hamas free all the hostages”, because they are the best excuse for the genocide.

Am I seeing things too pessimistic?

Nonilex , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Well that explains a few things!

#RFKJr Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His #Brain

The presidential #candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ATE PART OF HIS BRAIN.

🧠 🪱 🧱 #GiftArticle #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

faab64 , 1 month ago to palestine group

Lovely AI image

#StudentProtest #AntiWar #US #genocide #AI #Politics #Protests
@palestine

Strandjunker , 1 month ago to random

Voting for Biden means you have the freedom to vote for another president in 4 years.

Voting for Trump means you lose that very freedom.

faab64 , 1 month ago to israel group

Hardcore Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: "We must obliterate #Rafah, Deir al-Balah, and Nuseirat. The memory of the Amalek must be erased. No partial destruction will suffice; only absolute and complete devastation."

He has strong position and support in Israeli government. Do not expect him accepting anything less even if the hostage exchange deal have reached.

They want to make Gaza unhabitable. PERIOD.

Nothing short of that is defeat and unacceptable for fascist coalition government of #Netanyahu.

But #GenocideJoe and Israeli friendly media want us to believe that the negotiations are about a lasting ceasefire, removal of all Israeli forces from Gaza and letting displaced Palestinians to move back to northern #Gaza.

Don't fall for their lies

Without strong international pressure z Israel will not bend. EVER.

#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
@palestine @israel

SallyStrange , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre

#scifi #ScienceFiction #SFF #books

#10Authors5BooksEach
@bookstodon

mondoweiss , 1 month ago to israel group

Inflated claims of Israel's remarkable military success in thwarting Iran's strikes ignores the fact that Iran was deliberately restrained to avoid regional war, while the strikes forced Israel to give away its defensive positions.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/why-irans-retaliatory-attack-against-israel-was-not-a-failure/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

RememberUsAlways , 2 months ago to israel group

Columbia campus protester apologises for 'kill Zionists' comments.

Nope.

"A leader of students protesting the war in Gaza at Columbia University has apologised after video emerged of him saying "Zionists don't deserve to live".
#nazi
#racist
#fascist
#sympathy
#terrorist
#gaza
#freepalestine
#genocide
@palestine
@israel https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68909942

Sherifazuhur , 2 months ago to israel group

Blinken to visit Saudi Arabia and Israel next week. The Saudis made it clear that in order to move forward on normalization with Israel, the war in Gaza must end & the Israeli government must commit to an irreversible path for a two-state solution. Why does Biden admin (which doesn’t support a ceasefire) pursue this? (Hint: $ not peace) @saudi @israel

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/23/blinken-saudi-arabia-israel-trip

faab64 , 2 months ago to palestine group

It seems like Biden managed to make a deal with Netanyahu, his cooperation with US and refraining from lager attack against iran, in exchange for new weapons andcarte blanche for IDF in Gaza and occupied West Bank. Plus letting in just enough food into Gaza to avoid the famine charges but only to keep them slightly above that level.

I#DF have stepped up their barbaric attacks against Palestinians in #Gaza, #Lebanon and occupied #WestBank without any objections from the "world".

#Netanyahu did a great job, killing WCK aid workers and attacking Iranian consulate the day after the news about their multiple war crimes during the seage of Al Shifa hospital, bit only took the world attention away from that, but also made israel like a victim in the minds of the people in west against the big bad axis-of-evil Iran.

And on top of it, he got a billion dollars worth of free weapons and right to attack #Rafah as he pleases.

Isn't Biden a great president or what? He is such an amazing deal maker.

#GenocideJoe #AlShifaHispital #WarCrime #FoodAsWapon
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
@palestine @israel

faab64 , 2 months ago to random

IDF spoke man: #Hamas is responsible for every civilian casualty

Sounds like a bully hitting a kid and screaming, look what you made me do to you.

Sounds familiar?

#Israel #Genocide #Gaza #WTF

faab64 , 2 months ago to random

Last month, communication was lost with 94-year-old Naifa Rizq after the surprise Israeli military invasion of Al Shifa Hospital. Yesterday, her sons discovered her home engulfed in flames by the Israeli army. Inside, they found her charred remains on her bed.

Israel is hiding their evidence of their war crimea by setting Palestinian houses on fire before leaving.

Sadly, the world is standing by and watching these crimes to go unpunished and unpublished.

#Gaza #AlShifa #WarCrime #Genocide #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #ICJ #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow

faab64 , 3 months ago to israel group

Another innocent child who no one will remember in 5 minutes.

Just another number in the ever growing 14000+ children murdered by Israel and US with the help of UK and EU.

#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Famine #Gaza #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
@israel @palestine

mondoweiss , 3 months ago to palestine group

The very world perpetrating genocide asks Palestinians to prove that their children are indeed in pieces under the rubble, and not terrorists in a tunnel. Amid all the proving, there is no time to mourn.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/on-mourning/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

oatmeal , 3 months ago to palestine group

#Gaza / UNRWA donors likely to resume funding soon, Norway says

[…] "I think that a large number of those countries who suspended are (having) second thoughts," Barth Eide told Reuters in an interview, citing the recognition from these nations that "they cannot punish the whole Palestinian society".

[…] "But then, of course, they need an honourable way out, which means they are hoping, I think - without speaking for individual countries - that they will get something from these investigations that suggest that they can say: "well, we needed to suspend, but now we're back'."

#Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/unrwa-donors-likely-resume-funding-soon-norway-says-2024-03-06/

@palestine
@israel
#Israel #WarCrimee #Gaza
#UNRWA #GazaFamine

Rasta , 3 months ago to random

THE ENEMY?

MikeDunnAuthor , 3 months ago to random

Today in Labor History March 1, 1954: The U.S. detonated Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. It caused the worst radioactive contamination ever by the U.S. However, this occurred after years of nuclear testing and contamination of the islands and waters around them. The U.S. detonated 23 nuclear devices on the islands from 1946 to 1958. They blew up the bombs on the reef, in the sea, in the air and underwater. They relocated islanders several times, each time to supposedly safe islands. But they neglected to provide sufficient food and water, causing starvation. When the islanders tried to catch fish to eat, or grow their own crops, they were so contaminated from radioactive fallout, that it poisoned all who ate it. Women started having miscarriages and giving birth to babies with abnormalities.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #bikini #islands #nuclear #radioactive #bomb #contamination #coldwar #castlebravo #indigenous #indigenousrights #imperialism #forcedmigration #genocide

breadandcircuses , 3 months ago to random

In the news...

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More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis.

The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Thursday said at least 112 people were killed and more than 750 wounded, with the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemning what it said was a cold-blooded “massacre.”

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But don’t worry, everything’s fine. It’s not a genocide. Joe Biden said so.

FULL STORY -- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #USA

mondoweiss , 3 months ago to palestine group

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 146: Israeli forces massacre civilians waiting for humanitarian aid

Israeli tanks and warplanes reportedly targeted civilians waiting for aid, killing at least 77 and wounding hundreds. Meanwhile, international aid groups say airdrops of aid are so “negligible” that they “perpetuate the overall blockade strategy.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-146-israeli-forces-massacre-civilians-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

faab64 , 3 months ago to palestine group

Hunger ravages Gaza." And the people's question is: Where are the Arabs and Muslims?

Video shared on telegram channel:
t.me/newsvideofa/1194

#Famine #Gaza #Israel #Inhumanity #Politics #Occupation #Hypocrisy #Palestine #SaveTheChildren @palestine

oatmeal , 4 months ago to palestine group

#Israel / Gaza is only the beginning, Ben Gvir and Smotrich's goal is to "cleanse" the West Bank of Palestinians and clear the Al-Aqsa mosque of its Muslim worshippers [Ehud Olmert]

[...] The supreme goal of Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich is not primarily the conquest of the Gaza Strip. Nor is the settlement of the ruins of #Gaza the cherished aim of this group of messianic fanatics who have seized power in the State of Israel. Gaza is the introductory chapter, the platform they want to build as a foundation from which to wage the real campaign on which they have set their sights: the battle for the West Bank and the Temple Mount.

[...] Ultimately (or perhaps initially) Netanyahu is willing to forgo the captives and undermine the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan which are a fundamental pillar of Israel's security infrastructure. He is willing to undermine relations with the US to the point of an open crisis with the most committed president in history to Israel's security, Joe Biden. Netanyahu understands that the continued reckless unraveling will isolate Israel in the international community as never before.

[...] As hard as it is, there is no escaping saying it: Netanyahu, this will end in much bloodshed. You have been warned.

#Haaretz [Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2024-02-21/ty-article-opinion/.premium/0000018d-cb2e-d6e9-a38d-fb3f6b640000 or https://archive.md/Ol7rJ

• Olmert was Israel's prime minister from 2006 to 2009

@israel
@palestine
#WestBank
#EthnicCleansing

faab64 , 4 months ago to palestine group

Israeli strikes murdered the international assistant referee Muhammad Khattab along with his entire family last night.

#BoycotIsrael #FIFA #Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine

breadandcircuses , 4 months ago to random

In all of recorded human history — and probably for at least the last 100,000 years — our planet has never been as hot in the month of February as it is right now.

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February is on course to break a record number of heat records, meteorologists say. A little over halfway into the shortest month of the year, the heating spike has become so pronounced that climate charts are entering new territory, particularly for sea-surface temperatures that have persisted and accelerated to the point where expert observers are struggling to explain how the change is happening.

“The planet is warming at an accelerating rate. We are seeing rapid temperature increases in the ocean, the climate’s largest reservoir of heat,” said Dr Joel Hirschi, of the UK National Oceanography Centre. “The amplitude by which previous sea surface temperatures records were beaten in 2023 and now 2024 exceed expectations, though understanding why this is, is the subject of ongoing research.”

Humanity is on a trajectory to experience the hottest February in recorded history, after a record January, December, November, October, September, August, July, June, and May, according to Berkeley Earth scientist Zeke Hausfather.

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FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/february-on-course-to-break-unprecedented-number-of-heat-records

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

mondoweiss , 4 months ago to israel group

The horror of the past has returned in a new guise, and the comparison of the Jewish ghetto under Nazism with the Gaza ghetto under Israel’s current fascistic authority must cease to be sacrilegious.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/why-we-have-to-make-the-jewish-ghetto-comparison/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

rad , 4 months ago to palestine group

So, numerous Israeli families went to the ICJ against Hamas, because they are understandably going through hell with their family members being held captive. Nothing wrong with that. I get it and agree.

I just want you to remember that I call it now, the ICJ will rule against Hamas in no-time, whilst also stalling with providing the Palestinians with any real resolution.

@palestine #ceasefirenow

mondoweiss , 4 months ago to israel group

The last American war

The U.S. supports Israel unconditionally because it sees the entire Western project in the Middle East at risk today in Gaza. While it may seem these our darkest days, it is also clear that the U.S. and Israel are bound to fail.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/the-last-american-war/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

RememberUsAlways , 4 months ago to palestine group

To the sponsors of #Hamas weaponized sympathy for Palestinians used as human shields:
Please explain to me when Hamas will be held responsible for the death of civilians it uses as human shields.
Please explain to me how the elected government of #Gaza is justified in starting this conflict on October 7th 2023 and holding hostages from around the world.
Please explain the #tunnels
Explain the:
#hostage
#hostages
#terrorism
#rape
#jihad
#war
#islam

@palestine
@israel

oatmeal , 4 months ago to israel group

#Israel / Threatening letter sent to two Likud Knesset members: "We will extract the price of the disaster from those directly responsible for it"

Seems like smearing the left is the next unavoidable step in Israeli right’s escalating coverup and disinformation campaign.

In a letter allegedly sent on behalf of the "Organization of Israeli Avengers" to Knesset members, explicit threats of harming coalition members and their families were published. The letter details addresses and ID numbers, including of family members: "There will also be harm to children and grandchildren, in proportion to the number of casualties." The letter was brought to the attention of the Knesset Officer: "It has been transferred for police handling."

#Ynet https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/bkkbvwksp or https://archive.is/dh8lb

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelUsaHamasWar

mondoweiss , 4 months ago to israel group

Activists establish protest camp outside Antony Blinken’s home as demonstrations escalate against the Biden administration

Activists are camped outside Antony Blinken’s home to bring the call for a Gaza ceasefire directly to the Secretary of State’s doorstep. The protest is part of an escalating wave of protest directed squarely at the Biden administration.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/activists-establish-protest-camp-outside-antony-blinkens-home-as-demonstrations-escalate-against-the-biden-administration/?utm_content=buffer480c8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

18+ whitedove , 4 months ago to israel group

How would you define Zionism?
How would you define anti-Zionism?
Who do you consider a Zionist?
Who do you consider an anti-Zionist?
Please also include how (or if) you identify yourself in this regard.

@israel @palestine #Zionism

DrALJONES , 4 months ago to random

Analysis & interview on UNRWA funding cuts

"It’s immoral", says UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese

"At least a dozen countries have announced they will be suspending funds for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

"UNRWA has been a crucial provider of humanitarian aid in Gaza, so why, during a time of crisis & based only on allegations, have countries pulled their funding?"

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2024/2/2/its-immoral-un-special-rapporteur-on-unrwa-funding-cuts

#UNRWA #Gaza #Israel

faab64 , 4 months ago to palestine group

Guess which one gets unconditional support from western nations?

#palestine #Israel #Meme #Hypocrisy #Politics @palestine

JSharp1436 , 6 months ago to random

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